20 Days of ACA Round-Up!

On Tuesday, March 27, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) along with our poderosa activists from NYC rallied at the Supreme Court of the United States to stand for health care!

On March 26, 27 and 28, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the constitutionality of the law’s major provisions. And poderosa activists were there chanting “Yo! Quiero! Obamacare!” to show their support for the law that has the potential to increase meaningful access to quality and affordable health care for millions of Latinas and their families.

Check out the below video taken by Kara Ryan at National Council of La Raza (NCLR) about what health reform means for Latinas. Kara, who is a Senior Research Analyst with NCLR’s Health Policy Project, also reflect on her favorite day of the Supreme Court arguments in her blog post here.

Throughout March, we brought you the blog series, 20 Days of ACA: Lifting Latina Voices for Health Reform.Each post focused on one provision of the health reform law, or Affordable Care Act, and how that provision has and will benefit Latinas and their families. Each post also featured a photo of one of our supporters and activists sharing their reasons for supporting health reform.

And last but not least, just a few days before the Supreme Court began its review of the Affordable Care Act, the historic legislation celebrated its second birthday. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the health reform bill into law.